Sports and sporting events in the United States widespread. It is possibly the largest network of in the entire world. The U.S. boasts not a great number of professional sport teams and , but also a great amateur network of sports events. In the U.S., there are four major leagues of sports teams. They are Major League (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National League (NFL), and the National Hockey League (NHL). one of these leagues is very popular and also very profitable for the owners of the . Nearly every major city in the United States a team from each one of the leagues. cities have more though.

Los Angeles has two teams, the Rams and the Chargers; two baseball , the Dodgers and the Angels; two basketball teams, Lakers and the Clippers; two NHL teams, the and the Ducks. It is one of a of cities that have multiple teams within its . There is also a professional soccer league in U.S. now. It came into existence in the -1990s after the U.S. hosted the World Cup in California in 1994. The league was created as condition imposed by the international football association FIFA host the games in the U.S. Soccer, as rest of the world calls it, is not popular in the U.S. as in much of world, but it has gained some momentum since .

Amateur sports also thrive in the U.S. One the most popular sports in the amateur world college football. Nearly every university across the country an American football team, and there are thousands colleges and universities in the country. Most of schools belong to a league that can contain schools, and most of these schools field basketball, , hockey, and soccer teams, too.